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NASCAR Is Changing The Points Format But Is It Too Late? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning to everybody.
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  The King. Louie.
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  Louie. There he is, is on his perch.
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  I know a lot of you've been saying, where's Louie?
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  Why is he not up there? I don't know what the deal is
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  with Louie. It seems like in the heat of the
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  summer, he's running around outside all the time.
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  He's a boy. Hey, what you doing, buddy?
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  Look at you. You a bad ass.
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  Oh, he knows he's shy. I Lucy, I baby.
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  They all around Poppy this morning.
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  OK, Mark Martin is on his way. Yes, he is.
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  Somebody said you better record him coming up that driveway in
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  the bus. I will.
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  I'll be ready. Yeah.
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  We going to go out and eat. We're going to have a good time.
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  So anyway, everything will be just as normal.
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  We're going to do Mark Martin in two or three 10 minute Coffee
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  with Kenny segments. What we'll do is segment one
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  will be 10 minutes, then we'll download it and we'll say Coffee
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  with Kenny, Mark Martin number one, and then we'll keep going.
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  And then we'll do Coffee with Kenny, Mark Martin #2 And I'm
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  thinking maybe about 20 minutes, we'll be done.
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  Because then I want you all to look out for another special
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  that we're going to do with Mark about his bus.
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  Yeah, Mark is building another bus.
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  And if you follow him on social media, so we all talked about
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  it, Mark and Matt, they love the idea because Mark loves his
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  buses. And Mark says, Herman, you run
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  that dirt car and I got my bus. So Mark is already building
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  another one. And we do a little special with
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  this one and see what Mark has to tell us.
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  Then we're going to go back in the shop and we're going to talk
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  about Mark Martin's dirt racing days.
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  Did you know that Mark Martin grew up a dirt racer?
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  And yeah, he's friends with Jared Landers.
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  Dad, Low Lance Landers, The Landers, They own Jonathan
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  Davenport's car, one of the greatest dirt racers of all
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  time. And we'll go around the shop and
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  we'll look at things and we'll talk about the good old days.
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  When Mark used to race Rusty, and that's where Mark knows me
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  from. We've been friends since I've
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  been 10-11 years old. So we're going to make some
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  good, good content and Mark's getting ready to roll up here
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  pretty soon. OK, I, I get on social media
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  today and I don't know what's going on.
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  I mean, I went to bed like I was tired last night.
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  I think I was in bed at 9:40. Finally fell asleep around
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  10-10, something like that. So I wake up this morning and
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  everything is like one day old. I guess.
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  A lot of people did a lot of social media late on Monday
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  night, but the one that's getting a lot of traction is, I
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  don't know who it is really. I apologize, but there's a
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  social media presence out there that's saying there's no content
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  creators in NASCAR talking about, you know, the race and
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  really getting it on and it just shows that NASCAR is falling
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  mightily. I'm like about a no, my friend.
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  I it was a very nice, it was a very nice, it was very nice.
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  It was well done, but it was 3 inches long and it was
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  beautiful. But I'm not know what we got is
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  we got fatigue from all the negativity.
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  We have an incredible race. We had an incredible fight for
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  the championship on Sunday in Phoenix and it came down to the
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  last corner. You know, is Kyle Larson going
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  to make it back to the checkered flag in front of Denny Hamlin
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  and I? And I got it.
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  I got to tell you, I I think their fatigue is set in.
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  I know. I know me for a fact myself.
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  I thought a little bit yesterday about maybe just taking a break
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  and I and I will I, I will take a break on social media.
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  If you all know me well enough. I take 7 day breaks.
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  I did it about a month ago. I think a lot of you know that I
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  just don't get on social media for seven days.
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  What I do is I do my coffee with Kenny.
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  I'll doubt download it on Facebook and then Charlie will
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  get it off of there and put it on YouTube.
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  Sometimes you got to take a break because the noise is so
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  negative. See, not everybody's like me.
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  I'm thick skinned. It just it, it just hell, it
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  inspires me to talk about everything, but it can if you
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  let it and you're not as strong as me or having fun, everybody.
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  That's what I mean. I'm poking at you when you're a
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  bad ass like me. When you're a bad ass like me,
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  you can just let it drip off your shoulder.
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  It don't even matter, but I think everybody's got fatigue
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  from everybody complaining. My timeline yesterday, if if you
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  all could have seen my timeline yesterday, you would have said,
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  holy moly, it was continuous all day long.
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  They better change these points. NASCAR's failing.
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  It's like guys, girls, same different day, same different
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  day. NASCAR has clearly told us all
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  we got a new point system coming out.
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  And you know, for a while it died down.
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  But because the race was so good on Sunday, now everybody's just
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  firing right back up again. It will eventually die out
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  because Thanksgiving will take over.
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  Christmas will come in, New Year's will come in.
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  But, but, but the moral of the story is NASCAR is going to
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  change the point system. And we're going to talk to the
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  man that started it all, Mark the kid Martin out of
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  Batesville, AR. We're going to ask Mark, Mark,
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  were you surprised that you had this much influence on NASCAR?
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  They hear you. They're changing the point
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  system. Even Steve O'Donnell said a lot
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  of things that really made me happy.
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  Steve O'Donnell said here, I'm going to tell you what he said,
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  but not exactly what he said, but I'm going to say it so it
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  makes sense. He says we want our superstars
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  to be the superstars. So example, Connor Zillich in
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  the Xfinity Series, he's our superstar, but we can't, we
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  can't celebrate him the way we want to.
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  We can't say our superstar Connor Zillich is the champion
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  because it came down to A1 race playoff and Connor, Connor and
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  Justin Algar, they just didn't run real good at the end of the
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  year. So we cannot, we cannot
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  advertise. I mean, we can advertise our
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  superstar, but not as a champion.
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  So Steve O'Donnell on NASCAR, they're going to make sure that
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  the new point system is going to celebrate the person that is
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  rewarded. Now I'm, I've been, I've been,
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  I've been consistent. I've said it right here, I'm the
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  only one on video all the time. I've defended this point system
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  because I just never thought it was a big deal.
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  And I'm going to ask Mark why this year, You know, we've done
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  this for the last five years, 10 years, whatever it is.
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  Why this year? Why?
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  OK, we're at the fifth race of the year, OK, in 2025, the fifth
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  race of the year. And everybody's like, I don't
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  like this point system. I'm like this all about what?
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  What? We're at the 10th, 15th rates of
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  this year, 2025. And everybody's like, it was a
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  good race, but I don't like the point system.
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  I'm like, what? So I've been defending all along
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  because I'm like, what the hell is going on here?
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  Why what this point system has been going on for years, but why
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  this year? So I, I've been consistent.
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  Why this year? And I just, I just don't get it.
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  But we're going to talk to Mark Martin.
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  Remember I was the first one to have Mark Martin on Kenny
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  conversation and he lit it up. And remember they took those
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  shorts and they put them all over social media.
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  So blame it all on me. Blame it all on me putting Mark
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  Martin on Kenny conversation. And I've always said, I've
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  always said I like this system. I just want a three race
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  playoff. But hey, all I can say is I
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  don't give a flying. You guys are crazy.
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  You're crazy. Had a hell of a race on Sunday.
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  And you're like, I don't like the points.
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  I'm like, OK, all right, so there's content creators and
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  Kenny Wallace Media. We're out here digging.
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  All right, everybody, tomorrow's the big day.
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  If you've made it to 9 minutes and 40 seconds, tomorrow's the
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  big day. Have a great Tuesday everyone.